As we can see forecast favourite backers would make
a loss overall, but there look to be three areas to
concentrate on – namely maidens, sellers and claimers.
Indeed, claiming races have been a profitable area for
punters since the start of the all weather at Wolverhampton,
albeit a small one. For favourite backers out there,
claiming races at Wolverhampton may be an area to concentrate
on for I have unearthed a very simple system that has
been profitable in 9 out of the 10 years. The system
rules are :

As with forecast favourites, there is no real edge
to be consistently gained backing last time out winners.
Indeed, last time out winners seem to do worse than
forecast favourites. The last time out winners contesting
2 year old handicaps make a minute profit, but the sample
is very small. Claiming races show only a small loss
and once again this looks the best area to concentrate
on. The best claiming race system I can find at Wolverhampton
combines the position in the market, with recent form,
as well as using a weights filter similar to the one
I used earlier.

Those figures look quite promising, but there were
5 winning years and 4 losing years, which makes me feel
that this is prime example of back-fitting a system
to make it look better than it actually is.